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Re:Sustainable web design by draaglom on Monday August 09, 2021 @08:18AM (#28115834)
The headline figure of "3.8% of global carbon emissions" is currently un-sourced - so I'm very curious to see what it includes.

IEA claims datacenters account for 1% of electricity demand and data networks are another 1%:

IEA (2020), Data Centres and Data Transmission Networks, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/reports/data-centres-and-data-transmissi...

Now, those figures are _electricity_ not _carbon emissions_ - so perhaps the 3.8% figure includes e.g. datacenter construction emissions, or emissions related to producing servers and networking equipment?

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